employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we find ample evidence that compensating differentials for …

Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia's 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and … find that large and significant changes in tax evasion following the flat tax reform are associated with changes in … taxpayers to the flat tax reform is small relative to the tax evasion response. Finally, we develop a feasible framework to …

Russia, facilitating identification through fixed effects for employees, employers, and local labor markets, and instrumental …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this “negative spillover” effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …

and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … from 1995-97 to 1998-2000. The distance to the frontier is, however, orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in the … Republic, however, this ‘negative spillover’ effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause domestic …